Gina Apostol’s new book, INSURRECTO, was chosen as the cover of Publishers Weekly. In the boxed and starred review, they said of the book, “This is a complex and aptly vertiginous novel that deconstructs how humans tell stories and decide which versions of events are remembered… Apostol’s layers of narrative, pop culture references, and blurring of history and fiction make for a profound and unforgettable journey into the past and present of the Philippines.”

Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY has been selected for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction shortlist; it is one of three books to be honored. Scribner published the book on October 16, 2018.

An amazing feature of Andrea Lawlor and the burgeoning state of trans literature ran today in the New York Times. ““I came of age in the 90s,” Lawlor said. “Everyone was dying of AIDS. So people were like, wait a minute, what about play and pleasure and performance?”” Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel, PAULTAKESTHEFORMOF A MORTALGIRL, was originally published by Rescue Press on November 1, 2017. Vintage will reissue the book next spring.

Kelsey Miller’s definitive book on the TV show Friends, I’LLBETHEREFORYOU made the new release lists of HelloGiggles, Newsday, Brit + Co, Bookstr, and The Columbus Dispatch. Hanover Square Press published the book on October 23, 2018.

You can now read an excerpt from the forthcoming BEASTIEBOYSBOOK on Vulture.com, or catch the brand new Beastie Boys exhibit on 10/29-11/30, curated by Beastie Boys & Beyond the Streets. Spiegel & Grau will publish the book on October 30, 2018.

Elle, selecting HEAVY as “The 19 Best Books of 2018 (So Far),” called Laymon’s memoir “a staggering opus… a heartbreaking narrative on black bodies: how we hurt them, protect them, and try to heal them.” HEAVY also received a rave review from NPR books where Martha Anne Toll writes, “Dear America, please read this book. Kiese Laymon is a star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful.”

Vanity Fair interviewed Elliot Ackerman about his latest novel, WAITINGFOREDEN, which they call “A grim but ultimately hopeful look at the way people love during a crisis.” Knopf published the book on September 25, 2018

Ian Frazier of the New York Review of Books says, “Branch, a New York Times reporter, paints the big Utah canvas as skillfully as he drypoints the cowboy minutiae.” W.W. Norton published the book on May 15, 2018.